Jar.



No. 632,456. Patented Sept. 5, I899.

J. H. FOWLER.

JAR.

Application filed Jan. 17, 1899A "No Model.)

NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JOHN H. FOWVLER, OF HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA.

JAR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 632,456, dated September 5, 1899.

Application filed Januaryl'h 1899. Serial No. 7021 (NO 1110531) T0 at whom it may concern.-

Beit known that 1, JOHN H. FOWLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Huntingdon, in the county of Huntingdon and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and usefullmprovements in Jars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in jars for milk, fruit, and the like, and more particularly to the means for fastening the cover thereon; and the novelty and many advantages will appear from the following description and claims when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a jar with my improvements applied. Fig. 2 is a side view of the upper portion of the jar and cover, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a vertical crosssectional view of the same, taken in a plane at right angles to Fig. 2.

Referring by letter to said drawings, A indicates a jar which in general outline and appearance may resemble that of an ordinary fruit-jar and may be formed from glass or other suitable material. The mouth of the jar is made flaring, as shown at a, and one side of this flaring mouth is provided with a recess 1), which increases in width as it extends outwardly, so as to afford a spout, as it were, to facilitate pouring off the contents. At diametrically opposite points the jar is provided on its outer side and slightly below its upper edge with a securing-lug 0. These lugs are of peculiar form and construction, being of substantially keystone shape in outline, and start from a point corresponding with the neck of the jar, or approximately so, and extend to near the upper edge of the jar, with a bevel on their outer sides. Each lug is provided at a suitable altitude on its outer side with a transverse groove cl for a purpose which will presently appear.

13 indicates the cover, which may be of substantially plano-convex form in cross-section, having its under or plain side formed with a tapered and circularly-depending center a to correspond with and fit snugly in the flaring mouth of the jar, as better shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The cover fits well over the upper edge of the jar and is provided with a depending marginal flange f, which embraces said upper edge, a gasket being in some cases interposed between the upper edge of the jar and the under side of the cover.

The cover is provided on its upper side, at its margin, and at opposite points with springfastening devices 0. These fastening devices, which are composed of spring-wire, are of a peculiar and advantageous shape and are journaled in the top B. To receive these fastening devices, the jar-cover should be providcd at the points indicated with two lugjournals g, which may be formed integral with the cover and rise vertically therefrom, the journal-apertures h being in the inner faces, as shown. In forming the fasteners a piece of spring-wire of suitable gage and length is bent about midway of its length to form a loop 1' of a shape corresponding to that of the lugs 0, so as to receive said lugs and spring into the notches (1 thereof. The wire is then carried back substantially parallel, as shown at j, thence around outwardly, as at 70, and back, 'so as to form the bends or loops Z, after which the terminal ends are carried outwardly in opposite directions to form journals m, which are let into the apertures h of the lugs g. After thus shaping the fasteners the wire is bent at n, so that the upper portion 19 will conform to and lie snugly on the top of the cover and the opposite or lower portion q, bearing the loop, will receive and lie snugly over the lugs c of the jar.

A jar as thus constructed will be found particularly desirable as a milk-jar. The cover can be quickly applied and removed,and there are no parts liable to get out of order.

To remove the cover, it is simply necessary to spring one of the loops of the fastening devices out of engagement with its lug, when the cover can be turned off and out of engagement with the other lug. To place the cover, the fastening-wires are brought above the lugs and the cover forced down until it seats tightly on the top of the jar, when the wire fasteners will have sprung over the lugs and into the grooves thereof.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The jar having the tapered and beveled lugs on its outer side at opposite points; in combination with the cover having the pairs of lug-journals at opposite points on its top,

and fasteners, each formed of a single piece of spring-wire and respectively comprising an upper portion adapted to bear on the top of the cover and terminating in trunnions journaled in a pair of the lug-journals, and a depending loop adapted to engage one of the lugs on the jar, substantially as specified.

2. The herein-described jar having a flaring mouth with the spout-recess in its inner side and the securing-lugs on its outer side; in combination with the cover having the depending portion on its under side corresponding with the flare of the mouth of the jar and the flange surrounding the edge of the jar and also having the pairs of lug-journals on its upper side, and the fasteners each formed of JOHN H. FOWLER.

\Vitnesses:

R. A. ORBISON, H. CROWNOVER. 

